Najważniejszym źródłem wykorzystywanym przez CPJ i IFJ przy sporządzaniu list zabitych dziennikarzy z Gazy jest organizacja kierowana przez polityka Fatahu popierającego terroryzm.

Organizacja stojąca za większością rejestrów zabitych w Gazie „dziennikarzy” jest kierowana przez człowieka wychwalającego terrorystów

Sharon Levy, Ben M. Freeman i Giulia Dal Bello

The Quiet Islamic Colonization of America

Pierre Rehov

• For 25 years, American counterterrorism policy has been organized around the image of September 11: a terror cell, an aircraft, an explosion. Billions went into intelligence, airport screening and wars abroad. Across those same years, a slower project advanced through channels that no security agency was built to monitor: one moving through universities, lobbying organizations, municipal, state and national politics, and the vocabulary of civil rights. It required nothing more explosive than money, patience and a working knowledge of how an open society such as the United States functions.
• The Muslim Brotherhood grasped the possibilities long before Washington did.
• Millions of Muslims have no interest in seeing political Islam govern anyone, and many may have even crossed an ocean to escape it. The organizations that claim to speak in their name are another matter, and their central achievement has been to make the two indistinguishable, so that a political network registers as a whole population.
• The progressives think that the Islamists will boost them to power, and the Islamists think the progressives will boost them to power.
• While countries in the West are always nonchalantly accused of imperialism and colonization, how come no one ever mentions the Islamic imperialism and colonization of Christian Byzantium – now Turkey – let alone the entire Ottoman Empire? How come no one ever mentions the Islamic colonization of the Coptic Christian country of Egypt, or of northern Cyprus in 1974? Or the formerly Buddhist countries of southeast Asia, such as the Maldives, Malaysia or Indonesia?
• The Islamic colonization now underway in Europe and the United States carries no racial or demographic content…. The territory being taken is ideological: it changes hands whenever a political movement discovers that open institutions can be used more profitably than if they were attacked, or whenever foreign money purchases standing inside institutions that form the next generation of American elites, or whenever two movements with incompatible values find they can trade access for votes.
• Americans may not notice it right away, or now, but one day, unless actions are taken as soon as possible to prevent it, they may wake up one morning to find themselves under Islamic rule.
• The process is arithmetic: small concessions, each too minor to be worth a fight, accumulating across institutions, phrases and political territory until reversing the situation would demand a confrontation no one wishes to have. Europe crossed this threshold without even noticing it. America has not.
• The interval, however, in which recognizing the problem still costs less than reversing it is not indefinite.

A 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum, later entered into evidence by federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial, described the movement’s work in North America as a “civilization-jihadist process” aimed at “destroying Western civilization from within.” Nihad Awad, co-founder and national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), previously worked with the Islamic Association for Palestine, one of the groups named in the memorandum. Federal prosecutors listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation case. Pictured: Awad speaks at a press conference to support US Representative Ilhan Omar, on March 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

For 25 years, American counterterrorism policy has been organized around the image of September 11: a terror cell, an aircraft, an explosion. Billions went into intelligence, airport screening and wars abroad. Across those same years, a slower project advanced through channels that no security agency was built to monitor: one moving through universities, lobbying organizations, municipal, state and national politics, and the vocabulary of civil rights. It required nothing more explosive than money, patience and a working knowledge of how an open society such as the United States functions.

The Muslim Brotherhood grasped the possibilities long before Washington did. Its activists have operated in the US since at least the late 1950s; by 1991, one of them had committed the strategy to paper. This memorandum, written by Mohamed Akram and later entered into evidence by federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial, described the movement’s work in North America as a “civilization-jihadist process” aimed at “destroying Western civilization from within.” It attached a list of the organizations then considered friends of the movement. The method it laid out was institutional, incremental and on its face, lawful.

Not every American Muslim, of course, is an extremist; the overwhelming majority practice their faith peacefully, ask nothing of their neighbors and want for their children what every other American family wants. Millions of Muslims have no interest in seeing political Islam govern anyone, and many may have even crossed an ocean to escape it. The organizations that claim to speak in their name are another matter, and their central achievement has been to make the two indistinguishable, so that a political network registers as a whole population.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) illustrates the mechanism. Founded in 1994, it presents itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil rights organization.” Its co-founder and national executive director, Nihad Awad, previously worked with the Islamic Association for Palestine, one of the groups named in the 1991 memorandum. Federal prosecutors listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation case. The United Arab Emirates, an Islamic state that wisely treats the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat, placed CAIR on its list of terrorist organizations in 2014, a designation the Obama administration’s State Department publicly rejected within days.

CAIR is also politically fluent. Its affiliate CAIR Action intervenes openly in elections. After Zohran Mamdani won New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, it publicly pressed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to endorse him. Influence in a democracy operates this way, in daylight, through the ordinary instruments of pressure politics.

Washington has finally begun to respond. Executive Order 14362, “Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,” signed in November 2025, opened the process. On January 13, 2026, the State Department designated the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization while the Treasury Department listed the Egyptian and Jordanian branches as Specially Designated Global Terrorists for having provided material support to Hamas. On July 23, Treasury sanctioned a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official based in London along with two sham charities that had channeled money to Hamas’s military wing. These were the first designations of national Muslim Brotherhood chapters in American history. US Senator Ted Cruz spent years making the case and reintroduced his Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act in 2025.

Naming the Muslim Brotherhood abroad while leaving political Islam unexamined at home addressed half a problem. No president can personally audit every organization, adviser or intermediary orbiting his administration. Networks built over 60 years are dismantled by people who understand how the machinery works, and this machinery now extends well beyond explicitly Islamic organizations. Its most valuable American partner today is the radical left.

The left-Islamist alliance might look incongruous only from a distance. Progressives and Islamists disagree profoundly about religion, sexuality, women and individual liberty, and elections have made those disagreements affordable. Progressive politicians require organized constituencies, Islamist and anti-Israel activist networks require access to mainstream power, and hostility to Israel supplies the bridge. Ideological incompatibility matters less than arithmetic. The progressives think that the Islamists will boost them to power, and the Islamists think the progressives will boost them to power.

US Representative Ilhan Omar demonstrated how quickly the boundaries could move. Her repeated controversies over Israel cost her nothing inside progressive politics and eventually made her one of its emblems. US Representative Rashida Tlaib traveled a similar road from activism into Congress. Positions once considered politically fatal turned out to be assets within carefully assembled constituencies.

Mamdani then dispelled any illusion that the new movement was confined to a few congressional districts. He supported BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel), helped to establish a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College, and became the first political endorsement in the history of US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action. He now governs the city with the largest Jewish population in the world.

Michigan is the next laboratory. On August 4, Abdul El-Sayed, who claims to be a physician but has never had a medical license, won the Democrat Senate nomination over establishment-backed Representative Haley Stevens by roughly one point.

According to WFMD radio:

“Abdul El-Sayed has made his supposed medical credentials a centerpiece of his campaign, but the truth is he never held a medical license, never did his residency, never passed his boards, and never practiced medicine independently,” campaign spokesperson [for State Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-Michigan) Michigan] Jackson Boaz told Fox News Digital. “If Michigan voters can’t trust El-Sayed to be honest about something that is so central to his entire rationale for running, how can they trust him to be honest about what he’d do as a United States Senator?”

US Senator Bernie Sanders, US Representatives Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Working Families Party backed El-Sayed, who campaigned against military aid to Israel. Within days, the machinery of unity engaged. The defeated Stevens offered her support. Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer and US Senator Chuck Schumer, after opposing the nominee, fell in behind him, and former President Barack Obama telephoned to offer advice. El-Sayed called that conversation warm and inspiring while saying he hoped the former president would campaign for him this autumn.

The political pattern for the country is that the radical “left” has no need to convert the Democratic Party. They are already there, having proven that they can deliver votes in Michigan, Minnesota and New York. Once those votes are seen as necessary, yesterday’s radicals become today’s coalition partners in a constituency that is organized, concentrated and situated where elections are close.

Money underwrites these projects, both political and cultural. Federal disclosure data records $7.7 billion flowing from Qatar to American universities since 1986, more than from any other country, with more than $1.1 billion arriving in 2025 alone — roughly a fifth of all foreign funding that year. And that is just what we know about — it was reported. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy places the real total far higher across five decades and calls it a deliberate effort to seed Muslim Brotherhood thinking inside American institutions. Qatar spent years hosting senior Hamas leaders while accumulating extraordinary standing in Western universities, media and diplomacy. Influence among elites never arrives as a suitcase with instructions. It arrives as endowed chairs, research partnerships, satellite campuses and eventually dependency and submission to requests.

While countries in the West are always nonchalantly accused of imperialism and colonization, how come no one ever mentions the Islamic imperialism and colonization of Christian Byzantium – now Turkey – let alone the entire Ottoman Empire? How come no one ever mentions the Islamic colonization of the Coptic Christian country of Egypt, or of northern Cyprus in 1974? Or the formerly Buddhist countries of southeast Asia, such as the Maldives, Malaysia, or Indonesia?

The Islamic colonization now underway in Europe and the United States carries no racial or demographic content. A Muslim family settling in Detroit colonizes nothing, any more than an Italian family arriving in New York a century ago. The territory being taken is ideological: it changes hands whenever a political movement discovers that open institutions can be used more profitably than if they were attacked, or whenever foreign money purchases standing inside institutions that form the next generation of American elites, or whenever two movements with incompatible values find they can trade access for votes.

For now, at least, America’s position remains far stronger than Europe’s. The Muslim Brotherhood has been named and sanctioned, Marco Rubio’s State Department has begun converting old warnings into policy, and many American Muslims who fled from religious authoritarianism abroad may be reluctant to watch it follow them across the Atlantic. The instruments of self-defense are also intact, if largely unused. US Section 117 disclosure of gifts to educational institutions is enforced only in bursts of periodic embarrassment. It should be routine. The Foreign Agents Registration Act reaches those acting for foreign principals, yet in February 2025 the Justice Department narrowed criminal enforcement to conduct resembling traditional espionage and disbanded the FBI unit that investigated foreign influence. An administration willing to designate Muslim Brotherhood chapters abroad has quietly retired the main statutory tool for detecting foreign influence at home.

Americans may not notice it right away, or now, but one day, unless actions are taken as soon as possible to prevent it, they may wake up one morning to find themselves under Islamic rule.

The process is arithmetic: small concessions, each too minor to be worth a fight, accumulating across institutions, phrases and political territory until reversing the situation would demand a confrontation no one wishes to have. Europe crossed this threshold without even noticing it. America has not.

The interval, however, in which recognizing the problem still costs less than reversing it is not indefinite. 

Pierre Rehov, who holds a law degree from Paris-Assas, is a French reporter, novelist and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of six novels, including “Beyond Red Lines”, “The Third Testament” and “Red Eden”, translated from French. His latest essay on the aftermath of the October 7 massacre ” 7 octobre – La riposte ” became a bestseller in France. As a filmmaker, he has produced and directed 17 documentaries, many photographed at high risk in Middle Eastern war zones, and focusing on terrorism, media bias, and the persecution of Christians. His latest documentary, “Pogrom(s)” highlights the context of ancient Jew hatred within Muslim civilization as the main force behind the October 7 massacre.

‘Sit Next to an Israeli’: Flydubai Attack Heroes Become Viral Sensation

Debbie Weiss

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Yaniv Hayoun, Or Fradilov, Dr. Shota Musayev, and his wife, Sigalit, who he described as “heroes” for intervening to prevent a disaster on a flydubai aircraft bound for Israel from the United Arab Emirates, which was diverted to Saudi Arabia following an emergency signal, in Jerusalem, Oct. 1, 2026. Photo: Amos Ben Gershon/Government Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

Two days after passengers and crew thwarted the attempted hijacking and crashing of a flydubai flight, the story was still dominating headlines in Israel and flooding social media with memes, jokes, and tributes to those who helped avert disaster.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Thursday he would recommend plumber Yaniv Hayun, Tzvika Manes, and Asaf Rajuan, who helped overpower the alleged attacker, and Shota Musayev, a dentist who treated the wounded captain, for the Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism, an honor established after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks for civilians who risk their lives to save others. Herzog also praised Manes’s wife, Tali, who first alerted the crew that something was wrong in the cockpit.

“The swift action of the passengers and crew averted a major disaster,” Herzog said.

One of the most widely shared visuals, with 1.6 million views on X, was a mock airline seating chart posted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former spokesman David Keyes. Ordinary seats are gray or blue, while a scattering of blue Star-of-David icons are labeled “Special Seat,” under the caption: “New premium seating option lets you sit next to Israelis for extra security.”

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Netanyahu himself joined the lighter tone the next day. After meeting Hayun, still in the blood-stained Skechers T-shirt he had worn during the struggle, at the airport, the prime minister posted a screenshot of Hayun’s profile on the Israeli handyman-review app Midrag, showing a 9.93 rating from 107 reviews. The Hebrew caption translated as: “Yaniv Hayun is a hero who saved many lives. He can help you too, I highly recommend!”

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Netanyahu quipped: “I don’t know if you’ll be the next hijacked, but make sure an Israeli is sitting next to you.”

Human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky shared an AI-generated video advising passengers: “In the unlikely event that your First Officer decides to crash the aircraft, locate your nearest Israeli and ask him to take over.”

Much of the humor drew directly on the improvised response aboard flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The flight’s Omani co-pilot allegedly attacked Indian captain Smit Machchhar with a knife in the cockpit and sent the aircraft into a steep dive.

Tali Manes was taking her young daughter to the bathroom near the front of the plane when she heard banging from the cockpit and alerted a flight attendant. She told Israel’s Channel 12 that, when the crew member did not initially react, she insisted something was wrong. After the cockpit door opened and she saw blood inside, she shouted to the other passengers: “He’s stabbing the pilot, he’s stabbing the pilot, come help!”

Hayun, Tzvika Manes, and Rajuan then helped overpower the co-pilot, while Musayev treated the badly wounded captain. Two off-duty pilots eventually took control of the aircraft and landed it in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

Hayun, 50, added another unlikely detail to the story when he said he knew how to help stabilize the aircraft because he watches “Air Crash Investigation,” the television documentary series that reconstructs aviation disasters.

“I watch all kinds of programs about plane crashes,” Hayun told Reuters, describing how he recognized what was happening and pulled back on the controls as the aircraft plunged.

US President Donald Trump recounted the story from the Oval Office after speaking with Netanyahu, marveling that “an Israeli plumber, never flew a plane” had helped level the aircraft. Trump said Netanyahu told him Hayun knew what to do because he watched the television program.

“I don’t know if it’s true, but that’s the story that I got from Bibi and from a couple of other people,” Trump said, using Netanyahu’s nickname.

Israel’s public KAN broadcaster noted that the executive producer of “Air Crash Investigation” had said he was “stunned” by Hayun’s resourcefulness and invited the plumber to visit the show’s set.
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Details of how the passengers subdued the alleged attacker also traveled widely. In an interview clip posted by TV host Dr. Phil, Hayun recounted putting the man in a chokehold and then using wired headphones to bind him. Dr. Phil asked Hayun whether he had ever been in a fight before, to which the plumber replied: “I was a crazy kid in kindergarten.”
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Hayun has also said the subdued co-pilot repeatedly shouted “Kill me” in English after realizing the attempt had failed.

Another AI-generated video included lyrics: “They were expecting a snack bar, instead got allahu akbar,” and “wrong plane, wrong crowd, he totally misjudged those on the flight.”

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Another widely shared post riffed on familiar complaints about flights packed with Israeli travelers, from passengers crowding the aisle as soon as the plane lands to children roaming the cabin and groups of observant Jewish men gathering for prayers.

“I owe every flight full of Israelis an apology. Yes, having everyone standing in the aisle immediately upon landing is stressful. Yes, the rogue babies crawling up and down the corridor is a lot. Yes, blocking the bathroom for minyan is inconvenient,” the post read. “But when things go sideways?????? Give me 150 Israelis and Jews on that plane. I want the doctors, pilots, engineers, Mossad agents, and at least three people who are suspiciously calm because ‘hakol beseder I’ve handled worse!!!’,” the post continued, using the Hebrew phrase for “everything’s fine.”

Członek islamskiej fundacji Waqf sprząta teren przed Kopułą na Skale w kompleksie Al-Aksa w Jerozolimie, 13 września 2026 r. (Fot. REUTERS/Sinan Abu Mayzer)

Izrael: Partie arabskie wykluczone z wyborów. Sprawą zajmie się Sąd Najwyższy

Marta Urzędowska

Centralna komisja wyborcza w Izraelu zakazała najważniejszym partiom arabskim udziału w październikowych wyborach parlamentarnych. Jeśli faktycznie zostaną wykluczone, może to poważnie wpłynąć na wynik wyborów.

Izraelska centralna komisja wyborcza, która wykluczyła wiodące partie arabskie z zaplanowanych na 27 października wyborów parlamentarnych, składa się głównie z prawicowych parlamentarzystów (w Izraelu skład komisji odzwierciedla rozkład sił w parlamencie). 

O wykluczenie partii arabskich wnioskował Likud i skrajna prawica 

Chodzi m.in. o Zjednoczoną Listę Arabską, znaną powszechnie jako Ra’am, kierowaną przez Mansura Abbasa, oraz Wspólną Listę, czyli koalicję trzech partii arabskich – Hadasz, Balad i Taal. Komisja zagłosowała też dodatkowo za wykluczeniem dwóch indywidualnych posłów – Ofera Cassifa z partii Hadasz i lidera partii Balad – Samiego Abu Szehadeha.

A fraudulent ‘Free Palestine’ activist embodies a lying hateful cause

Jonathan S. Tobin 

An anti-Israel protest on University Avenue in Toronto, Nov. 4, 2023. Credit: Can Pac Swire via Wikimedia Commons.

We live in an era in which fashionable opinion holds it to be an unquestioned truth that biological gender must be considered fluid and changeable, but racial and ethnic identity is not. That’s more a function of ideology than science. Yet the ideas that are the foundation of these complicated and sometimes illogical notions are a formula for a social architecture that prizes one thing above all: victim status.

That’s the best way to understand the peculiar phenomenon of individuals who choose to adopt the identity of a group other than the one they were born into, so as to acquire the much-prized modern privilege that goes with victimhood.

The most famous of these was Rachel Dolezal, a white woman of European heritage who masqueraded as an African American, taught African-American studies on the college level and even was chosen as the president of the Spokane, Kansas chapter of the NAACP before her fraud was exposed in 2015.

Another, less celebrated, racial impersonator was Jessica Krug, a radical ideologue who was a tenured professor of history at George Washington University. She pretended to be a black and Hispanic woman from “El Barrio” in New York City’s Bronx, but was really a middle-class, white, Jewish woman who grew up in suburban Kansas City and attended a day school.

A Jew who became ‘Philadelphia’s Leading Antisemite’

And now there’s a new addition to this bizarre list of racial impersonators: Hannah Gann.

Gann is a Philadelphia high-school teacher who claims, at times, to be of Palestinian and Tunisian heritage and sometimes also to be black. In this guise, she became a leading local advocate for the anti-Israel cause, organizing an event at public schools alleging that the Jewish state was committing “scholasticide” against Palestinians and speaking up as a member of the “Philly Palestine Coalition” and “Parents for Palestine.”

She gained local notoriety for her efforts on behalf of a colleague and longtime friend, Keziah Ridgeway, who was suspended for making threats against Jewish parents who complained about her inserting anti-Israel propaganda into the classroom.

As the Canary Mission website noted on a page devoted to her activities, Gann has celebrated Hamas terrorism, glorified violence and spread hatred of Israel, America and the police on her now-deleted Instagram page. She was a participant at a December 2023 “Flood Philly for Palestine” rally (a reference to the Hamas name for the Oct. 7 attacks that they dubbed the “Al Aqsa flood”), at which she not only praised the mass slaughter of Jews and joined in chants calling for Jewish genocide and terrorism against Jews, but also demonstrated against a Jewish-owned restaurant in the city.

So prominent was she in the effort to demonize the Jewish state and its Jewish supporters, that the Accuracy in Media group, once parked a mobile billboard outside her school calling her “Philadelphia’s Leading Antisemite.”

But, like Dolezal and Krug, Gann was a con artist, not a “person of color” or a Palestinian. She was, in fact—as she subsequently admitted in a groveling on-line apology—“a white woman of significant privilege and wealth.”

And if that was not enough to outrage her former allies, it turns out that she’s also Jewish with family living in Israel.

As with Dolezal and Krug, Gann’s deceptions, which might have included financial fraud, are being angrily denounced as a form of “black face” and for damaging the “pro-Palestine” movement and harming the black students she taught.

The lure of victimhood

The appeal of victimhood is rooted in woke notions that see the world divided into two eternally warring and impermeable classes of persons. On the one side are people of color who are always victims and always in the right no matter what they do. On the other are the white oppressors who are always in the wrong, regardless of their conduct or the context of events.

The toxic ideologues of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism have adopted this skewed way of looking at the world and indoctrinated a generation of Americans to view everything through the lens of racial conflict. Believers in this secular religion not only dismiss the enormous progress made toward racial equality made in the United States over the last 70 years. Its supporters also actively oppose the vision of a color-blind society articulated by Martin Luther King Jr., who famously said he had a dream “that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

In a society where such terrible and destructive ideas are treated as universal truth, by the lights of this belief system, some find themselves locked into an identity that marks them as permanent villains. While the majority seeks atonement for its “whiteness” and “privilege” by activism aimed at bringing down a falsely perceived oppressor class, others, like Dolezal, Krug and Gann, go further and adopt the identity of one of the oppressed, thus transforming into an exotic, fashionable persona with real privilege in the world of leftist ideology.

But what makes Gann’s masquerade particularly objectionable is that while she and the “pro-Palestine” crowd pose as virtuous victims, their cause itself is a fraud and one that actively engages in hatred of their own people.

While such left-wing ideologies and the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in which they are based are bad for everyone, they also take particular aim at Israel and Jews, whom they falsely label as part of the “white” oppressor class. Because this belief system venerates victimhood and despises success, the Jews—the most persecuted group in world history, to the frustration of many liberals longing to be counted among the permanently oppressed—must always be redefined as victimizers rather than victims of hate.

According to this inversion of reality, the Jews are denied the right to live in Israel, the country in which they are indigenous. And Zionism, their national-liberation movement, is smeared as a form of unique evil whose overthrow is believed to be linked to the salvation of the whole world. Instead of helping Palestinians, as they claim to be doing, those who cheer on this madness are locking them into a permanent state of futile warfare and misery.

Far from a language of genuine liberation, the woke rhetoric about Israel and Zionists that Gann and her former friends spew, comes straight out of a script written by Soviet propagandists in the 1960s and ‘70s. Its purpose is the overthrow of Western civilization and American liberty and its replacement by Marxist tyranny, not freedom for the oppressed.

Gann deserves the opprobrium she’s getting for her pathetic play-acting. As with Dolezal and Krug, that involved trying to appear more dark-skinned with the aid of makeup and a fake tan. It also included, as a former classmate of Gann’s at the University of Pennsylvania who knew her before she started to pretend to be a Palestinian, told The Philadelphia Inquirer, not merely changing her appearance but often speaking in a dialect or form of slang that the politically correct now refer to as “African-American Vernacular English.”

A catalogue of lies

Gann said in her apology, “The fact that I lied about who I was does not mean anyone else who speaks up for Palestine is lying.”

But, of course, that’s exactly the point. The entire rhetoric of “Free Palestine” is a catalogue of lies.

Indeed, the rewriting of the history of ancient Israel and the modern state, as well as the repeated Palestinian-Arab rejections of any peace offer that does not involve the expulsion of Jews from their homeland, is essential to the movement’s cause. From the fabricated statistics about Palestinian casualties in the post-Oct. 7 war they started, to their denials of the atrocities, including mass murder, torture and rape committed that day by the Palestinians (which were filmed on Go-Pro cameras and posted on the social-media accounts of some of the victims to cause even more pain to their relatives and friends), to their denigration of the suffering of the hundreds who were kidnapped on that Jewish holiday, “pro-Palestine” discourse aims not merely to deny reality, but to invert it.

Above all, the dialectic of Palestinianism aims at stripping Jews of rights and falsely portraying them as criminal monsters and modern-day Nazis, while glorifying an Islamist movement whose sole purpose is Jewish genocide and destruction of the one Jewish state on the planet. And in order to accomplish this, they have, with the aid of a biased media, spread blood libels about the Jews committing “genocide” and their democratic nation being an “apartheid state.”

While few go as far as pretending to be Palestinian, the anti-Israel movement nevertheless welcomes those who want to participate in the struggle of the alleged victims. As we’ve seen on American college campuses and in the streets of the country’s cities, those who adopt their lies and target Jews, as Gann and her friends did, have been indoctrinated to think of themselves as righteous activists, not purveyors of hate. In so doing, they acquire a vicarious sort of victimhood that gives them a higher status in the culture of the left, even if they still remain white and therefore intrinsically bad.

Among them are Jews, such as the members of Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, which traffic in other antisemitic blood libels, such as the preposterous accusation that Israel trains American police and first responders to murder African Americans.

Seen in this context, it’s easy to see that Gann’s desperate attempt to escape her “whiteness” and Jewish identity in order to be a member of the ironically more privileged victim class, didn’t just lead to lies about her origins. The identity she chose was itself based on a web of deception, concocted by ideologues and spread by those, like Gann, whose idea of education is shoving propaganda down the throats of students—not sharing the treasure of Western thought and ideals.

Those who joined Gann in the chants for genocide and terror against the Jews may not have transgressed the racial taboo of cultural and racial appropriation that the left despises. They may fool themselves into believing that she betrayed their cause with her lies.

But with their cosplaying of Palestinian terrorists in their costumes of keffiyehs and masks, and their recitations of Soviet and Hamas propaganda aimed at promoting antisemitism, the difference between their frauds and hers is not as great as they think.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.